The plaintiffs, in court papers filed last Thursday, alleged the defendants then tried to cover up their crime by destroying leftover slices of the cake tainted with rat poison. (obscura99/Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Pass the turkey, please — and hold the rat poison.

The Thanksgiving Day 2015 menu at the Brooklyn House of Detention featured deliberately tainted carrot cake that left 16 inmates incapacitated, according to a new federal lawsuit.

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Correction officers or other jailhouse workers caused the prisoners "to suffer food poisoning from (the dessert) ... containing poisons or including rat poison on said Thanksgiving Day," the lawsuit charged.

The plaintiffs, in court papers filed last Thursday, alleged the defendants then tried to cover up their crime by destroying leftover slices of the corrupted cake.

The lawsuit claims their efforts were in vain, and several samples of the defiled dessert were seized by investigators for "preservation and testing."

Once the inmates became sick, the correction officers "refused to administer adequate and proper medical care in a timely fashion, causing ... additional pain and suffering."

The foul food fallout included inmates getting their stomachs pumped, undergoing CAT scans or visiting emergency rooms, they alleged. Some prisoners were reportedly forced to call 311 or 911 for medical aid.

"Plaintiffs' injuries were the direct result of the negligent, intentional, careless and reckless conduct" of the defendants, the suit charged.

The inmates are seeking $1 million apiece for the alleged culinary crime, with the city, the Correction Department, the jail's correction officers and its staff named as defendants.

A spokesman for the NYC Law Department said they will review the complaint.